Improvement in curtain-fixtures



@anni @da RICHARD B-EAL, CF COMMERCE, MICII'ICrAN.

Letters Patent No. 108,752, dated November 1, 1870. l

IMPROVEMENT-IN CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

4The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern Bc it known that I, RICHARD BEAL, of Commerce, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Windowcurtain Fixture; and I do ,declare that t-he following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing andV to the letters of reference markedthereon,and being a part of this specification. p

The nature of this vinvention relates to an improved method of operating wind0\v curtains or shades, and consists in the peculiar arrangement ot' a pair of cords in certain pulleys or eye-bolts secured to the top of the window7 and'to a weighted tassel, in such a manner that the curtain is rolled up on a shaft at its lower end, while the tassel will have a vertical movement within the height of the window, thereby keeping it clear of the oor when the curtain is rolled up, and out of the reach of children.

In the drawinggwhich is an elevation of a shade .provided with my fixture- A represents a window-curtain or shade, attached at its top to a slat7 B, properly secured to the top of the window-frame.

C is a shaft or roller, towhich the lower edge of the shade is tacked or otherwise secured.

C is a groored pulley or spool at each end of the rollel'. i

ADis a tassel, suiiiciently weighted to serve as a counter-balance to the roller.

At the top of the tassel is a pair ot' eye-bolts, a,

'.lhe curtain being put up, and the roller dropped to the full length of the curtain, a cord, E, is madeast the eye-bolts c in the tassel, thence up to the top slat, at the center, where they are secured.

Ihe cords should bev ot'v such length that the tasse-l should now hang at or rnear the top of the shade.

New, it will be seen that, by pulling down the tassel, the roller will be turned bythe unwinding of the cord, wound on its spools, and rolled up with it as it rises, the tassel traveling only the same distance that does the roller, which is held up by the weight ot the tassel.

tallie puiley-blocks.

Bythisarrangement ofthe cords and eye-bolts, the tassel and cord do not trail over the tloorot` the apartment when the shadeis rolled up, requiring the latter' to be triced up, as is 'the case with other-fixtures of' a somewhat similar character now in use, and the invention whereot'I expressly disclaim; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the eye-bolts c b o and cords.

E, with relation to the spools C of the 'roller C, at-

tached to the lower edge of a window-shade, and ay weighted tassel, D, as and for the purpose set forth.

Vitnesses: RICHARD BEAL.

FREDERICK EBERTs, PATRICK F. BARRY.

If preferred, the eye-bolts may replaced by me- 

